232 LINCOLN SOCIETY. 



The county of Lincoln, although it has been cut and mangled, 

 — although it has lost the rich manufacturing district of the 

 Androscoggin, and the valuable Avatcrs of the Kennebec, is still 

 worthy of notice, and will not suflfer by comparison with any 

 other county of the State as an agricultural district. 



Tiiere is no county in the State of Maine which is furnished 

 to so great an extent with navigable tide waters as the county 

 of Lincoln. Nineteen towns of the twenty-four of which the 

 county is composed, are situated on navigable rivers or the sea 

 board- At the west is the Sliecpscot river, for the accom- 

 modation of Southport, Boothbay, Westport, Wiscasset and 

 Alna. The Damariscotta river, affording like facilities to Bris- 

 tol, Newcastle, Damariscotta and Nobleborough. The ^Ijis- 

 congus, supplying Bremen, Friendship and Waldoborough. The 

 Georges, supplying Gushing, Warren, St. George and Thomas- 

 ton. While the broad Penobscot supplies South Thomaston 

 and Rockland. 



While this large number of towns is thus accommodated for 

 shipbuilding and transportation, they are nearly all good agri- 

 cultural districts; and while the attention of their citizens has 

 been directed to shipbuilding, lime and brick manufacturing, 

 and freighting, they have opened an extensive and ready mar- 

 ket for all the fine farming towns of the interior ; the towns 

 of Dresden, Alna, Whitefield, Jefferson, Washington and Union, 

 can here find a ready market, and ready pay at remunerating 

 prices for all their surplus stock and produce. 



Li addition to the advantages of so many navigable rivers, 

 we have in this county water power for manufacturing purposes, 

 quite equal, if not superior, to any other in the State, and far 

 too valuable to be passed without notice. 



The falls at Nobleborough, supplied by the great Damaris- 

 cotta pond, are capable of forcing any amount of machinery, and 

 must necessarily within a few years make an active manufac- 

 turing village at that place. Nor should we overlook the fine 

 water privileges at Warren and Union, on the Georges river. 

 Warren and its vicinity-:arc at present realizing an advantage 

 from this privilege in the amount of woolen cloth and yarn that 

 is there manufactured, specimens of which arc on exhibition at 



